Natalya Meshchaninova
Director of fiction and documentary cinema, scriptwriter, writer. Winner of the NIKA award (for the script for “Arrhythmia”), prize-winner and participant of national and international film festivals. Born in Krasnodar. Graduated from Kuban State University of Culture and Arts, majoring in directing for film and television (2005). Worked as director at Krasnodar TV. After training at the Internews School of Documentary Cinema (2007, Marina Razbezhkina’s workshop), she started making documentary films. Worked on the serial “School” (2010). Her debut feature came with “Hope Factory” (2014), which won a prize for Best Debut at the White Elephant awards and a special award “Voice” from young film critics; participated in the competition of Rotterdam IFF and Kinotavr. Her series “Red Bracelets” won the Grand Prix at Dvizhenie [Movement] festival in 2015.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
February 17, 1982Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
18Place of birth
Krasnodar, USSR (Russia)Also known as
Natalia Meshchaninova, Наталия МещаниноваCrew credits
My Little Nighttime Secret
Screenplay, DirectorThe Hope Factory
Director, ScreenplayThe Edge of the Broken Moon
WriterTill Night Do Us Part
Additional Director of PhotographyШкола
DirectorArrhythmia
ScreenplayAnother Year
ScreenplayAnna's War
ScreenplayCore of the World
Screenplay, DirectorGo to
ProducerPolina and Andrey
ScreenplayLate Autumn
Director, ScreenplayThree Minutes of Silence
ScreenplayMy Love
ProducerHerbarium
Director, Screenplay, Director of PhotographyAnd That’s It
Screenplay, Director